URGENT: really help with a strange problem after booting a backstreet ruby kernel

[dave g. <giv...@ya...>]

i applied the backstreet ruby patch (2.4.22-20030910)
against a vanilla copy of linux-2.4.22 that I got from
kernel.org, and was able to compile and install the
resulting kernel. The system I am running this on is
i686 redhat9.

The kernel loads, but once it starts init, I get some
error messages about the usb support (I have connected
a usb & PS/2 keyboard), and then i see a message that
says "starting system logger", the first of my system
services, but I don't see the resulting ok/fail
message, nor any other output.

My PS/2 keyboard works, so I can type letters and they
appear on the screen. But nothing else seems to
happen. I can press CTRL+ALT+DEL and the system
switches to runlevel 6.

I have tried putting a line in my inittab just before
the line that starts the sysinit scripts, to run
mingetty on tty2, thinking that maybe then I could get
into a shell and see whats going on. But when I do
that, I get a message from init, just before the
message about the system logger (above), that says
that it is respawning to fast and is disabled for 5
minutes.

Any thoughts as to what I can try to fix this? 
I need to get a dual X server system running soon
:)

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